1. The Cold War 1945 - 1952

2. Cold War themes for this chapter… Conflict with Soviets Conflict between HST & Congress

3. Basic political & social differences between the Soviet Union & the United States… AmericaSoviet Union Free electionsNo elections or fixed DemocraticDictatorship CapitalistCommunist ‘Survival of the fittest’Everybody helps everybody Richest world powerPoor economic base Personal freedom Society controlled by the secret police Freedom of the speechTotal censorship

4. Why was there a breakdown in relations between the US and USSR after WW II? Mistrust before, during & after the War… The Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)… The second front in Europe… The atomic bomb… The UN … Truman lacks diplomatic skills with Stalin

5. Global Insecurities

6. The Cold War An indirect state of conflict between the US & USSR that would dominate global affairs & US Foreign Policy from 1945-91.

7. The Yalta Conference – Feb, 1945 Yalta Agreements… Germany is divided Communist regimes in Poland & Yugoslavia Free elections will be held Germany will pay reparations The Soviets will enter the war against Japan Who attended Yalta?

8. The Potsdam Conference July - August, 1945 Who attended Potsdam? Communist “Satellite nations” created …No free elections Agreement on Japanese surrender… “Surrender or be destroyed”

9. Objective… Explain the reasons for the global insecurities that existed at the end of WW II.

10. The “American Century” 1) The ideas & expectations of the “American Century”… 2) The Soviet view of the “American Century”… * The domestic economic fears following WW II…

11. The United Nations 3) & 4) The function & powers of the UN… – UN General Assembly… – UN Security Council…

12. The UN Security Council Number of member nations… The unique powers UN Security Council members… 5) The UN: - Limitations… - Success…

13. The role of E. Roosevelt in UN programs…

14. 5) The Post War Trials 1945- 1949 Where? Nuremberg & Tokyo Who? The Allies What? 22 Nazi / 28 Japanese Why? Launching an "aggressive war" & committing "crimes against humanity" Nuremberg Trial Defendants Japanese Trials

15. 7) What were the post war concerns & demands of the Soviet Union? 8)Describe how Europe was geographically divided after WW II?

16. 10) I & E: Iron Curtain – The line dividing eastern & western Europe.

17. East Germany

18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyXXepUgrE "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic," Churchill told his audience in the Westminster College gymnasium in the small American town of Fulton, "an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere."

21. 9) The difference between the US occupation & reconstruction of W. Germany & the Soviet occupation & reconstruction of E. Germany…